Baxter Shoal

Baxter Shoal (50˚45'00" 126˚30'00" W side of Baker I, E end of Queen Charlotte Str, NE of Port McNeill). Petty Officer Richard Alexander Baxter, of Vancouver, was killed in action June 25, 1940, aboard HMCS Fraser. The RCN destroyer sank after accidentally colliding with a British cruiser, HMS Calcutta, during attempts to evacuate refugees on France’s SW coast near Bayonne; 47 lives were lost on Fraser and 19 on Calcutta. Baxter’s name is inscribed on the Halifax Memorial.

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